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| lecture I briefly touched upon the subject of decision-making. I was asked how it is possible to | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| blessed, all of you. Be in God. 32. DECISION-MAKING Greetings in the Name of the Lord, my | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to speak on another subject. The subject of decision-making is very important in everyone's life, for everything | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| So, there is a schooling connected with the decision-making and planning for the next life. The entity | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| twists. In other words, if a man rejects decision-making activity, everything that is part of the active | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| entirely on the motive. Whoever interprets free, mature decision-making as self-will, should question himself -- or be | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| consideration for another person. In fact, lack of decision-making will often produce the same results as inconsiderate | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-willed, it is equally erroneous that refusal of decision-making, under the mask of waiting for God's will | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
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| enlightened, as is the will of God. 2. DECISIONS AND TESTS Greetings in the name of God | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| appears difficult at times. Many people can make decisions on the outer level, though some cannot do | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| great number of people cannot make the inner decisions, however. Their emotional currents and inner, emotional reactions | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| on. Then they can begin to make inner decisions. The inability to make inner decisions expresses itself | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| make inner decisions. The inability to make inner decisions expresses itself not only in problems that seem | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to learn is to take responsibility for your decisions. You have to learn to pierce the dark | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| resistance. When people live their whole lives avoiding decisions, reactions and chain reactions will ensue. A spiritual | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to disentangle the knots and learn to make decisions. Therefore you, who receive these words, should contemplate | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| words, should contemplate them well. Understand that avoiding decisions will cause great harm, not only in spiritual | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| relevant inner conclusions and to make the outward decisions that follow from them. It is a decision | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| part of this path. I talked about inner decisions in my last lecture. The decision to develop | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| inner decision which I have mentioned previously. Inner decisions can be made only when you have become | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| world weariness. Going back once more to inner decisions, I would like to mention that when you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| knowledge of the spiritual laws, make their own decisions and carry them out. Only when a particular | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| your intellect so that you can make your decisions with it: I go this or that way | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| spiritual ascent. Thus, the beings who make the decisions for the next incarnation would say, We cannot | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| who contacted the spirits and asked them about decisions. Should they begin a war, will it bring | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| are taught that we should make our own decisions, and those people were spiritually so much more | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| circumstance. Apart from the willpower to make single decisions or take a certain course in one's life | 18 FREE WILL |
| certain individuals, as well as for various other decisions. On the other hand, these spirits also take | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| certain questions that may come up unexpectedly. These decisions are made on the basis of the great | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| with all beings. In this capacity, God makes decisions, dispositions, and determinations. In this capacity, God as | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| individuality as a thinking being capable of making decisions. In this flowing state, the divine female aspect | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| existence these beings had once known. However, certain decisions and changes had to be made, always according | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| cannot do this but that they avoid those decisions concerning their inner life. They run away from | 21 THE FALL |
| so that it may help you in your decisions, that it may strengthen you to recognize the | 21 THE FALL |
| must be made and prepared for all possible decisions, resulting from free will. This is an important | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God! 25. THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS Greetings in the name of God and Jesus | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| lower self that fights constantly against the right decisions, delivering all sorts of excuses and pretexts, while | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| This is as true for big and important decisions as it is for small ones. In one | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| consider committing an antisocial or sinful act, the decisions you are faced with could be right either | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| in a certain way, why you make certain decisions, and so on. Consciously, you have to fight | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| human beings are incapable of making clear-cut, mature decisions. That is why their souls become sick and | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| this point of view. Have you made real decisions? Or do you sometimes make superficial decisions, not | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| real decisions? Or do you sometimes make superficial decisions, not weighing or facing what is involved in | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to be paid. So beware of making your decisions half-heartedly like a child, going into them with | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| meet the conflicts that result from not making decisions in this way. Conflicts are created not because | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| do not see anyone who always makes emotional decisions maturely. I am again giving you strong material | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| way or another, you have not made your decisions properly. Do not remain on the surface level | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| subject discussed in this lecture, concerning the proper decisions, will shed a light on this too. Ambition | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| cycle of the development of an individual being, decisions cannot be made by the individual. But from | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| and often even the duty, to make personal decisions about the circumstances of the following incarnation. Depending | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Depending on the character of the entity, these decisions are not always good. There are people who | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| spirit entity is not capable of making any decisions, because any extreme in character produces a lack | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| when the character becomes more harmonized will the decisions not deviate too strongly from the right middle | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| an entity is not yet developed far enough, decisions are made by higher authority. But even in | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| be bad or even dangerous and why the decisions made by a trained and highly developed spirit | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is not yet able to make its own decisions, it may still sometimes have sound ideas and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is no definite borderline between the state when decisions are made for an entity and when it | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| when it is ready to make its own decisions. The ability comes slowly and gradually. From incarnation | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is ready to make his or her own decisions, the purpose of what should be accomplished in | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| yourself, I do not mean your outer deeds, decisions, and reactions. These you can often explain and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| being who is not forced into reactions and decisions by his or her own compulsive and unconscious | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| motives are surely also contained in these inner decisions, but also weak ones. And it is your | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| its own two feet; it cannot make mature decisions; it cannot be independent of weak and selfish | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you cannot and should not make any major decisions anyway until you become much clearer about yourself | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| indulgent, pampering god to fix your life, make decisions for you, take self-inflicted hardships from you. The | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and inferiorities enter in as well. Yet making decisions is a prerequisite to healthy living. The distortion | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and soul contributes to the inability to make decisions. Lack of proper self-love on the one hand | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| that you are often called upon to make decisions when you cannot choose between obvious right and | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and wrong, good and evil, white and black. Decisions can hurt people. Realize that the person who | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| It was pointed out to somebody that making decisions are necessary in life. This person believes that | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| people who are unable or unwilling to make decisions wait for God to take care of their | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wait for God to take care of their decisions for them, what will happen will not be | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their own weakness, unwillingness, or inability to make decisions. It is a fallacy to think you can | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| think you can go through life without making decisions. Actually, you make a decision every time you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you become mature, independent, and responsible for your decisions. By no means do I suggest using self-will | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| By no means do I suggest using self-will. Decisions may, but need not be prompted by self-will | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lines: Why do you feel God should make decisions for you? Didn't God give you free will | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| becoming a grown person who can make responsible decisions personally? Does the idea that God's will cannot | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that God's will cannot manifest if you make decisions hide a fear that you are responsible and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| healthier if you say, Even if occasionally my decisions will turn out wrong, I act according to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ability, trying to consider everyone involved, making my decisions with as little egotism as possible, but with | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from my possible mistakes. In reality, by avoiding decisions I would only try to get out of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is unhealthy if you let God make the decisions for you so that you may be absolved | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may be absolved from the consequences of your decisions, their consequences, and the responsibility involved in making | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the same results as inconsiderate, heedless and selfish decisions that are made without further thought. It is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is a complete error to believe that independent decisions are necessarily selfish and self-willed, it is equally | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in a hidden way, to refuse to make decisions; it may even be dishonest to say, It | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ability and the responsibility to make your own decisions. Certainly it is advisable to trust in God | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for guidance and not to go about making decisions without asking God for help. When you ask | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have self-responsibility and are, therefore, accountable for your decisions, whether they turn out right or wrong. It | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| every human being's life to make some wrong decisions, but you should certainly learn from them. Is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| set your own causes in motion by your decisions or the lack of them. The law of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is only that the former will make wiser decisions for their lives from the viewpoint of reality | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on the other you may overemphasize it. Both decisions happen unconsciously out of your wrong conclusions. So | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| in every way; you want to make independent decisions and choices. If these prove good, it is | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| reason why you reject self-responsibility. By making independent decisions, you are bound to make mistakes. The child | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| if you do, and therefore thinks that independent decisions for which one is responsible must not be | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to terms with your confusions, by making independent decisions for carrying out unselfish acts, thus being at | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| your will, to use your mind, to make decisions, to utilize your assets, to direct your life | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to think, to face, and to make self-responsible decisions. In that way, truth is perverted. This has | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the movement of your feet symbolizes major changes, decisions, attitudes. All life is differentiated between these two | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| actions -- feet -- symbolize decisive change, great decisions, self-propelling movement -- or the lack of it | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| build it up. With such honest self-appraisal, proper decisions must finally result, and lead to ability, creativity | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| obey, you will protect me. You will make decisions for me. I will not be held responsible | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| expect God to live for you; to make decisions for you; to bring desired results for you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| think and too cowardly to make their own decisions based on their own evaluations, they want to | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only outer deeds. All thoughts, emotions, attitudes, inner decisions, and behavior patterns are actions. Actions coming from | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| position to discriminate -- to make choices and decisions -- because fear and anxiety are gone. In | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| and psychological survival necessitates alertness, power to make decisions, willingness to make mistakes and learn from them | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you. You do not want to cope with decisions, with the strain of living. Or, more accurately | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the greater the scope and ease with which decisions can be made, the greater the capacity to | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| If you have, for instance, difficulty in making decisions, believing yourself very limited in scope, while perhaps | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| equal possibility for growth if your actions and decisions are derived from yourself and your own standards | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| wishful thinking; foresight; the ability to make mature decisions; self-confidence; the ability to love and be loved | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you truly comprehend this and are confronted with decisions but cannot see how to arrive at this | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| be in possession of the divine truth, where decisions are right and harmonious for all, and be | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you alone, determine your actions, your behavior, your decisions. The moment you do this, something begins to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you do not dare to make your own decisions, where you lean on ready-made rules, there your | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| on your discriminating ego to make your own decisions. Rather you choose the directives of others in | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| do not have to be a slave to decisions that do not come from me because I | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| could take advantage of you, because your free decisions to take action will be made in absolute | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| refusing the consequences of your own actions and decisions, the more you want to have your cake | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be. You will then not fear to make decisions, to make mistakes, to meet difficulties. You will | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| ingrained conviction of limitation, of having to make decisions of self versus others; to reach such understanding | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| overcome both tendencies; you thus will make many decisions, each different. Once, you will forsake your own | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the personality awakens and self-consciousness is gained, such decisions and choices of attitude are possible. Conversely, to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| attitude are possible. Conversely, to the degree such decisions and choices of attitude are made, consciousness awakens | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| I which observes, articulates, can also make new decisions and choices, and can look for hitherto undreamed-of | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in your vision and your perceptions, so that decisions will be made from the center of your | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the psyche, all your opinions, perceptions, actions and decisions will be based on half-truths or complete distortions | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| it permeates all your thoughts and perceptions, your decisions and actions, your feelings and reactions. We shall | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| manifestations, and expressions of such a person? All decisions, big or small, are made on the basis | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| can think, I can make a decision, My decisions have impact, My thoughts have effect, My feelings | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| affect. They are self-responsible and accountable for their decisions to think one way rather than another. To | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| important that you account to yourself for your decisions and trust and confront these issues, even if | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| manage not to know that you are making decisions every day and every hour of your life | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| and every hour of your life. These are decisions about what to think, about how to view | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| to the inner realities themselves. All these are decisions that you make constantly. If you test yourself | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| test yourself as to the meaning of these decisions -- and that they are indeed decisions -- | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| these decisions -- and that they are indeed decisions -- at least you will stop the creation | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| way wishes to avoid the responsibility of making decisions, choices, and of establishing autonomy. The person who | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the new consciousness you will not make superficial decisions with your head, wanting the immediate fulfillment of | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fulfillment of your desire. The new consciousness makes decisions in an entirely new way. It is aware | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| anything, but your actions and your approach to decisions prove in which camp you belong. More and | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| respect to inspiration for your personal life and decisions? Here, too, you must not fail to go | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| working so strongly. The new person makes all decisions from this new consciousness after working his or | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| of. She wanted an authority figure to make decisions for her, take the blame for her mistakes | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of life, as well as in little everyday decisions. The decisions of what to do and what | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| as well as in little everyday decisions. The decisions of what to do and what not to | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| and conflicts, in all the apparent difficulties of decisions your dualistic life seems to consist of. Another | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| unequal in their feelings, in their thoughts, their decisions and their actions. You would say that an | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| vital energies. The You that can make these decisions is the already-manifest divinity. It is an illusion | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| an illusion to believe that by not making decisions in your thoughts, opinions or acts, you have | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| you actively choose, you often doubt that your decisions have impact. How much more will you doubt | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| your autonomy and your ability to make future decisions. The refusal to surrender creates an overdeveloped self-will | 254 SURRENDER |
| life, not to be made responsible for one's decisions and their outcome. When you choose a mate | 254 SURRENDER |
| your ability to discriminate and to make independent decisions forever. It may perhaps indicate a change of | 254 SURRENDER |
| full responsibility for your life, your experiences, your decisions. The greater the rebellion against those authority figures | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| consequences of your errors, distortions, negativities, or unwise decisions. You want an infallible key handed to you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| dedication to your path, by the many daily decisions to face the truth in difficult or confusing | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |